Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

I'm pretty excited about the poly-evolver keyboard, but somewhat
concerned as to whether Dave's solution for the low voice count,
polychain mode, is really practical (at least as the normal poly-evolver
implements it).

The poly-evolver manual seems to say that when polychain is engaged, it
completely turns off voice-stealing (it's hard to see how it could do
otherwise, as there's apparently no way to tell the evolver how many
voices can be handled by chained evolvers).

So if you have a poly-evolver or a normal evolver chained to a
poly-evolver keyboard, and play a pad with long envelope release times,
what happens?

On a typical polysynth with voice stealing, the tails of the notes will
get cut off when you run out of polyphony and voices start being stolen,
but this is generally pretty manageable.  If poly-chaining simply sends
new notes along the chain whenever there are no free voices, it seems as
if you'd essentially start _losing notes_ because of the long note
release times -- and this is much less acceptable.

Does anyone have any experience of this?  Does the P.E. handle this in
some clever way...?

Thanks,

-Miles
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